Arizona’s Brewer Labeled ’Traitor’ as She Pushes Medicaid
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Arizona’s Republican Governor Jan Brewer has been known nationally as one of the most outspoken foes of President Barack Obama -- a Fox News regular, border hawk and states’ rights advocate who once wagged her finger in the chief executive’s face on a Phoenix-area tarmac.
Now, Brewer, 68, is being called a traitor by members of her own party and heralded by advocates for the poor as she digs in for one of the toughest fights of her political career: expanding her state’s Medicaid program under Obama’s Affordable Care Act.